﻿Beverage and shredding documents: keep the franchise from the company radar

There is a bit more discouragement than having a minor incident within your franchise, then having someone in Corporate hear about it and turning it into an important business, where they send someone to talk to you about it. For example, perhaps a new hiring has thrown some customer data into the normal garbage rather than the shredder of the documents, and here is one of your customers complaining to the main office of stealing their identity, and suddenly there is the dog house with Corporate. It does not have to be this way – if you follow this advice:

Look at every pest

If you see a fruit fly, do not wait until you see another one. A single little falling mouse should mean that employees are ready to stay late for other signs. Regardless of whether you run a restaurant, a shipping station or a home health care office, any parasites that appear on commercial property are indicative of a problem that needs to be fixed, and if you do not solve it quickly, the company will arrive and solve it for you

Cuidado, Cuidado, Piso Mojado

Wet floors are one thing in environments where drinks are the order of the day – but a surprising amount of damaging slips occurs in places where liquids have no space. A recent study showed that slip and fall style incidents cost not only legal fees and damages, but also negatively affect future business. Train your employees to clean, dry the paper, or otherwise direct each puddle when they notice it, and you can minimize the danger that the company will send a lawyer to deal with a local liability issue.

Make friends with the Shredder

Franchises are among the main targets of identity thieves, because it is well known that they do not always have the levels of security and protocols that the main corporate offices do. Older computers have well-known security breaches, older files have more easily selectable locks and, most importantly, deductibles tend to be much less rigid on the destruction of documents. Do not be that place; keep your data safe and let corporate white-collar lawyers take care of someone else’s mistakes.

Develop an all-encompassing cleaning program

One of the most common reasons for a corporate visit is when a significant business asset breaks much sooner than its expected duration. Sometimes, it’s inevitable – something happens. But most of the time, it turned out that an office printer, an industrial dishwasher or an HVAC system that goes unexpectedly into the belly has not been properly maintained in quite some time. The answer is obvious; keep your equipment maintained by professionals and regularly cleaned by your normal staff.

It’s one thing to make your business work to minimize risk: that kind of paranoia will often cost you more than you save, and it will make you lose your mind for a completely different reason. But not keeping an eye on some of the most common and most harmful accidents possible is simply silly. So keep an eye on the bottom line, but watch out for these basic dangers along the way. The business you save will almost certainly be yours.